Journal article
Superior growth, N uptake and NH4 tolerance in the giant bamboo Phyllostachys edulis over the broad-leaved tree Castanopsis fargesii at elevated NH4 may underlie community succession and favor the expansion of bamboo
Na Zou, Weiming Shi, Lihan Hou, Herbert J Kronzucker, Ling Huang, Hongmei Gu, Qingpei Yang, Guanghua Deng, Guangyao Yang
Tree Physiology | OXFORD UNIV PRESS | Published : 2020
Abstract
The unbridled expansion of bamboo has imposed serious threats on ecosystem processes and functions. Considerable evidence indicates that bamboo invasions can alter plant-available soil nitrogen (N) pools and rates of N cycling, but the consequences of altered N availability for plant growth and community structure have thus far been poorly characterized. The primary soil-accessible N forms for most plants are ammonium (NH4+) and nitrate (NO3-), but plants differ in their ability to use the different N forms, and these differences can be related to their ecological characteristics and drive community structure. In this context, we evaluated the growth response, N uptake and interspecific comp..
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Awarded by National Natural Science Foundation of China
Awarded by Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province, China
Awarded by Enterprise Academician Workstation Foundation
Awarded by 'first-class discipline' construction fund of forestry
Funding Acknowledgements
We are grateful to Professor Xianquan Weng (Xiayang State Forest Farm of Nanping of Fujian Province) for the kind provision of C. fargesii seeds. We thank Professors Fusheng Chen, Jianmin Shi from Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory for Bamboo Germplasm Resources and Utilization, China and Tianchi Wang from the New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research for their critical reading of the manuscript. We also thank other members of our team and members in Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory for Bamboo Germplasm Resources and Utilization for their assistance. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31300521), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province, China (20171ACB21027), 'first-class discipline' construction fund of forestry (9010020-09003) and the Enterprise Academician Workstation Foundation (BC20170014Z).